Rona Kobell, Co-founder of the Environmental Justice Journalism Institute, based in Baltimore, Maryland
When we think of environmental justice, we think of its roots in North Carolina — fighting against landfills, power plants and other large industrial polluters moving to Black and lower-income neighborhoods. But environmental injustices are far more pervasive and systematic than that, and can impact culture and history just as they harm air and water. Their work in rural communities builds on other research and reporting to show how, why and what we can do to stop it.
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